Free Concert with the Harvard Glee Club and Rhodes College Singers

Harvard Glee Club & the Rhodes College Singers
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 | 7:00 PM
Free Admission

Join the historic Harvard Glee Club, America’s oldest collegiate choir (founded in 1858), under the direction of Andrew Clark, for an inspiring evening of choral music in collaboration with the Rhodes College Singers conducted by Dr. Jason Bishop.

This dynamic program spans centuries and styles, with selections ranging from early American and Renaissance works by William Billings and Samuel Webbe, to masterworks by Brahms, Madetoja, and Carl Orff. Audiences will also experience powerful 20th- and 21st-century voices including Florence Reece, Stephen Sondheim, Trevor Weston, and Brandon Williams, alongside spirituals and newly arranged works written especially for the Harvard Glee Club.

From sacred choral traditions to contemporary social commentary, this free concert celebrates the enduring power of music to unite generations and communities.

HARVARD GLEE CLUB REPERTOIRE TO BE SELECTED FROM:

Chester (1770/1778) | William Billings (1746-1800)

Glorious Apollo (1787) | Samuel Webbe (1740-1816)

L’amour de Moy (15th century) traditional | arr. Alice Parker (1925-2023)

Alto Rhapsody, op. 53 (1869) | Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

De profundis (1925) | Leevi Madetoja (1887-1947)

Which Side Are You On? (1931) | Florence Reece (1900-1986)

Not While I’m Around from Sweeney Todd (1979) | Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021)

These Things Shall Never Die (2013) | Brandon Williams (b.1984)

Selections from Bonhoeffer (2015) | Thomas Lloyd (b.1952)

My Lord What a Morning | Traditional Spiritual

As Children Walk Ye in Gods Love | R. Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943)

arr. For the Harvard Glee Club by Marques L.A. Garrett (2025)

Sounds (2024) | Trevor Weston (b. 1967)

selections from Carmina Burana (1937) | Carl Orff (1895-1982)

The Harvard Glee Club, America’s oldest collegiate choir, is a tenor-bass choral ensemble founded at Harvard University in 1858. Guided by the four cardinal virtues of glee, good humor, unity, and joy, the Glee Club aims to cultivate and sustain the art of tenor-bass choral music across centuries of tradition. The ensemble performs at home at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre and on both domestic and international tours, with recent performances across Western Europe, the Dominican Republic, Korea, Japan, and throughout the United States. A student-run and -managed 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, the Glee Club provides members opportunities for leadership and arts management including planning tours, organizing concerts with collaborating universities, and marketing performances. While traditionally drawing on repertoire from the collegiate, folk, and sacred choral traditions of Europe and North America, the Glee Club has also commissioned contemporary composers representing a broad array of experiences and styles, including Bongani Magatyana, Molly Joyce, Karen Thomas, Morten Lauridsen, Robert Kyr, and Sir John Tavener. The Glee Club features a student-led a capella subset, Glee Club Lite, which further broadens this rich repertoire with music from the popular, musical theater, and jazz traditions.
To learn more about the Harvard Glee Club, visit www.harvardgleeclub.org.

Andrew Clark is Director of Choral Activities and Senior Lecturer on Music at Harvard University, where he leads the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, and other ensembles, and teaches conducting, choral literature, and music and disability studies. Since 2010, he has guided the Harvard Choruses in acclaimed performances at the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Boston Symphony Hall, and internationally across Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America.

Committed to equity, access, and community engagement, Clark has built partnerships with schools, correctional institutions, healthcare facilities, shelters, and senior communities. He has organized residencies with distinguished artists including Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Sweet Honey in the Rock, and has commissioned and premiered more than fifty new works, launching the Harvard Choruses New Music Initiative to support student composers.

Praised as “first rate” (Boston Globe), his ensembles have collaborated with major orchestras and artists including the National Symphony, Boston Pops, Handel and Haydn Society, Stephen Sondheim, and Dave Brubeck. Previously, he led the Providence Singers and Tufts University choral program. Clark holds degrees from Wake Forest, Carnegie Mellon, and Boston University.

Rhodes Singers originated in 1937 under the direction of Professor Louis Nicholas (‘34), who organized the first choral ensemble at Rhodes College in 1934. Burnet C. Tuthill, co-founder of the National Association of the Schools of Music (NASM), formalized choral music performance with the establishment of the Rhodes Singers as the concert choir for the college. Rhodes Singers is a select, auditioned mixed choir of approximately 50 Singers, and serves as a flagship ensemble for Rhodes College. They perform a wide variety of choral repertoire from multiple styles and eras. Rhodes Singers may be heard in many concerts locally, on tours throughout the United States, and on international tours every few years. In 2010, they performed in the Rome International Choral Festival, and performed concert tours in Italy and France. They also performed in 2011, for a special Presidents’ Day Choral Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and in concert, by adjudicated invitation, at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. In recent years they have toured Arkansas, Missouri, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and Louisiana. In 2017, the choir performed a concert tour around the New York area that featured a concert in St. Patrick’s Cathedral and culminated in a standing ovation presentation at Carnegie Hall in New York City. In summer of 2018, members performed in the Dublin Choral Festival in Ireland, and were invited for an encore performance at St. Patrick’s Cathedral and in Carnegie Hall in 2020, which had to be canceled due to COVID. They were thrilled to sing once again when they were able to perform a concert tour in Poland and the Czech Republic in May 2021, and when they returned to New York City in May 2022 for another concert tour, which included an invitation to perform once again in Saint Patrick’s Cathedral. In May 2026, the Rhodes Singers will tour the Baltic States, performing concerts in the capital cities of Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania.

Dr. D. Jason Bishop '98 is Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Rhodes College. Previous positions he has held include Associate Professor of Music, Director of Choral & Vocal Studies, and Chair of the Music Department at Drew University; Artistic Director of the Grammy award-winning Texas Boys Choir; and most recently, Director of Choral Activities and Barbara S. Christie ’76 Director of The Laurentian Singers at St. Lawrence University. While serving as Director of Choral Activities at Penn State Erie and Music Director of the Erie Philharmonic Chorus, Dr. Bishop also founded the Young People’s Chorus of Erie, northwest Pennsylvania’s first community youth and children’s chorus organization, of which he served as Artistic & Executive Director. During his tenure, he brought the Young People’s Chorus of Erie to international recognition in performances at Carnegie Hall and in competition at the World Choir Games (the “Choir Olympics”), for which they won two gold medals and a silver medal. In recognition of his work, Dr. Bishop received the Asset Champion Award from Healthy Youth Development of Erie County and a Proclamation from the Erie City Council.

Dr. Bishop has conducted performances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Sanders Theater at Harvard University, and the Chautauqua Institution. As a clinician, he has led honor choirs, festivals, and workshops throughout the United States, Europe, South Korea, and China, and has presented at multiple professional conferences. He is also an active composer and arranger, with works currently published by NoteNova Publishing, Colla Voce Music, Hal Leonard Corporation, and his self-publishing label, Tully Road Music. He has served the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) at state, division, and national levels, including as National Repertoire & Resources Chair for Student Activities. Dr. Bishop holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral conducting from the University of Oklahoma where he studied with Dr. Dennis Shrock, a Master of Music degree in choral conducting from Boston University where he studied with Dr. Ann Howard Jones, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music and Greek & Roman Studies from Rhodes College, where he studied conducting with the late Professor Tony Lee Garner (’65), graduated Phi Beta Kappa with distinction, was voted into the Hall of Fame, and received the Kinney Leadership Award for outstanding service to his community.

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